Photos blurry in InDesign

[MDoudna86]

Hello,

I am new to Indesign and trying to create a documents with a few photos in them.  When I photoshop my image in photoshop the image will look fine but when i place it in Indesign it is blurry and choppy. I have checked my setting and everything is set to high quality.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[Peter Spier]

The links are up to date, and the images aren't screen captures or something similar that was upsampled to get the high resolution?

[jean-michaelt81400308]

Hi,

I'm having this insane blurry issues when high-res when I create an interactive PDF out of indesign. It continually happens and always happens after I've finished creating a document and am trying to submit it. The blurriness is like a virus that just comes and goes when it pleases.

I have DISPLAY PERFORMANCE > HIGH QUALITY - checked and under PREFERENCES > DISPLAY PERFORMANCE > I have "preserve Object-Level Display Settings" NOT checked and I have DEFAULT VIEW "High Quality"

My images are always a larger pixel count, then the bounding box I place them in, and then I check fit content proportionally.

I have NO IDEA why my page counter logo will not become high res.

The EFFECTIVE PPI is 581 // ACTUAL PPI is 72 - WHY WON'T it become high res, the images is 500 x 220 and the image box I've placed it in can't be more than 100 x 50 pixels.

It always looks fine in the document, and then the export is blurry.

Please advise anyone.

[yu.ri.et]

Same issue here. I wonder if yours got solved?

[johndglobe]

When I export to an interactive PDF, Ctrl+E.  There is a setting EXPORT to INTERACTIVE PDF>COMPRESSION, it appears Indesign automatically compresses any JPEG in the file.  By changing this setting to High and increasing the ppi, I resolved my blurry photo's.  I am not a great user of Indesign, just trying to help out some other new users as well.

[clintonAEMC]

@johndglobe Thank you.  That is a very important thing to know.  Knowing where the export setting are for image quality have been critical to being able to manage export quality and file size.

Have you any ideas as to why the display of the graphics within InDesign might be blurry?  Keep in mind the solutions already suggested and tried above.

[clintonAEMC]

Does anyone else see that the 'Correct Answer' to the initial question in this thread doesn't actually answer it, but gives an answer to do something the person explicitly said they have tried?

If there are no moderators to correct this, I might create a new thread to get more responses.

[BobLevine]

The problem is that you hijacked a 6 year old thread and should have started a new on at that time.

I'll branch this off to a new one now.

[BobLevine]

Well that didn't work too well. Only got some of the posts.

You may be better off trying a new thread.

Photos blurry in InDesign (BRANCHED)

[clintonAEMC]

I think you got the main ones...Thanks!

[rjudge11110000]

DMSPhotoDude…..this helped resolve my issue right away.

[Cassie5E7D]

I tried this on my software and my image was still blurry. Any other suggestions?

[Derek Cross]

I haven't read through this thread, so forgive repetition.

Some thoughts to check:

1) Do you have a retina (high definition) screen?

2) What is the effective resolution PPI of your image(s)?

3) Are you viewing images using High Quality Display under Diplay Performance?

4) Are your images Linked?

[Kirsty5C47]

Hi all, 

Some really useful tips on this thread. I have also tried everything suggested expect from changing the pixels as I do not know how to do this. My blurry images currently have an actual PPI of 96 and effective PPI of 73 x 95. 

Can someone please help me on how I change this on the image itself if that is what is needed? And what I should change it to?

Thank you